introducing the flash slideshow widget

Thu, Oct 25, 2007

I’ve developed a Wordpress widget that displays the mini flash slideshow I developed a few years ago. It’s easy to install. All you have to do is upload a slideshow to your blog.

You can find out how to configure the slideshow here. Then just download the widget and copy it to the directory:

wp-content/plugins/widgets

If you don’t have a widgets directory in your plugins directory, just create one and upload flash_slideshow_widget.zip to the new directory and extract it. You should see one file, flash_slideshow_widget.php.. Then go to your plugins page and activate the Flash Slideshow Widget. You can then drag it onto your theme in the Presentation -> Widgets page.

I’ve made a wee movie of how to activate and configure the widget: